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Deep_Grizz t1_ja42598 wrote

Reply to comment by mrhardliner007 in Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

Never said they didn't exist elsewhere, just that it's laughable to assume this "pure Florida native" bullshit where they all care about the environment. I'm totally fine with living around assholes, gonna happen anywhere you're right. But I'd prefer my kids go to schools that are comfortable teaching about Black people and actually have books in their libraries. Something tells me that doesn't require living in a Utopia. Just anywhere besides Florida.

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ivegot3dvision t1_ja409sm wrote

Reply to comment by impulsiveclick in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

Look, the fact of the matter is that there's a lot of people that live in Portland (and surrounding areas) that are nowhere near rich. If you think that Portland is some rich stronghold, you're very mistaken.

My main issue is that if a state/city/whatever is going to benefit from an infrastructure project, like a bridge between states, both parties should fund it. I don't see how that's a lot to ask.

Also, I am very, very against any tolling on the 5. It's going to be a mess.

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methpartysupplies t1_ja3ygza wrote

Reply to comment by Lephthands in Florida city opens nature preserve after citizens helped save it by Metlman13

Maybe my reading comprehension is shit, but based on the article it sounds like the family already owned the land. They could have just designated it as a preserve… but it was appraised at 11 million bucks. So it was this families wish that this be designated as a preserve, but ya know, they also had the wish for millions of dollars. So great idea, let’s have Pulte group come in and hold a 14 million dollar gun to everyone’s heads, then we’ll shake down donors and the city for 10 million bucks.

Idk man, at the very least that family doesn’t deserve to have their name on it. If they donated it, sure, it’s your legacy. Otherwise it was just a real estate transaction so take your money and go.

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impulsiveclick t1_ja3xik9 wrote

Reply to comment by ivegot3dvision in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

because Vancouver Washington residents don’t make nearly as much money as very rich upper class Portland. It’s not Vancouver’s fault that the people who could actually afford to pay a toll are on the other side of the bridge that won’t be using it.

This is exactly why I don’t think anybody in Oregon is a real socialist or cares about the lower class.

if you saw Vancouver Washington was capable of paying that kind of money in the 90s you’re just lying. I couldn’t afford it in the 2000s either. And it certainly couldn’t afford it through the 2010s while Portland was booming.

Vancouver Washington didn’t even have enough money to expand our jail in order to fit the amount of people is necessary. Our jail is significantly smaller for the population size than it should. And if we can’t afford a jail, what makes you think we could afford a bridge ?

Silver spoon in your mouth. We do not have income tax. Remember who would get taxed. Poor people. Disabled people.

it hasn’t been fun the past decade in Vancouver Washington watching as our housing prices go up and up and up because Portland Oregon won’t deal with its shit and all of our housing prices are based upon Portland and not ours. Because we can’t attract builders unless we make our apartments the same price as your low income apartments and these days you’ve got it cheaper.

The people who don’t have to cross the bridge and live in Vancouver Washington have it much better than the people who have to. There are people from Skamania county who have to go to Portland in order to work at all. Because there’s no jobs where they live.

but people in Portland wouldn’t know anything about that. They wouldn’t know anything about post 2008 economic crash realities that hit rural areas more than it hit them. Nor are they thankful that they actually came out of that significantly better off than the entirety of the rest of the country. (#1 in raised median income isnt doing bad!)

went from the most livable city to one of the most expensive in the span of a decade. All because y’all are selfish. You became just the people you demonize so very much. And you look down at your nose from your high tower at Poor Vantucky. Demanding that we give money we do not have because we’re peasants who dared to work where you live and we cannot afford. Demanding we pay like some place that is economically competitive.

Imagine treating Eugene like they’re Seattle. Because that’s what you’re doing to me and others here.

Imagine expecting the same amount from Federal way as you would Seattle. But now there’s a state line involved with opposite tax realities, so it’s just so much worse. It’s not even like I can use Medicaid facilities where you are at. I have to go to Seattle. That’s how that works.

I want to see our cities is two halved of a whole and I more relate to this area as its own state within itself then within my own state or just Oregon. We are like fraternal twin sisters or something.

If I was in Seattle and this was a Seattle and Portland problem then it would be equal. But it’s just not.

I can throw so many bitter words at Portland… and you can throw a lot of bitter words at me. and I will still love Portland. But I don’t think you love Vancouver. I know Camas stinkville fuckheads suck for Portland when they do go over but they cause us a lot of trouble too. You see the anti- school levy campaign for Vancouver? Yeah, that was people who live in Camas. Patriot Prayer? Camas.

I’m not in a position of power, and I assume you aint either. I want the light rail. The types who live out in Camas don’t even wanna pay for basic public transit.

I can only say “just raise taxes” isn’t an option. No state income tax. And the people who use the bridge are some of the least able to pay. If they were well off, they would find some way of working closer to home where they have political representation.

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